On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 12:09:49AM +0000, Shea Martin wrote: > My hda is going south. I have a good (crosses fingers) disk as /dev/hdb > right now. My plan for migration is this: > > 1. fdisk /dev/hdb, and create similar partion scheme on hdb. > 2. newfs all new partititions, mkswap on swap partition. > 2. from knoppix, "cp -a" the contents of /dev/hda to /dev/hdb. > 3. chroot to the / of hdb, and run grub. > 4. poweroff, pull hda, make hdb the new primary-master (aka hda). > 5. boot and pray. > > Anyone see any wholes in this theory? > No, but I do see a couple of holes :-) Take a look at this page: http://www.chesh.com/neil/reiserfstoxfs.html It talks about migrating from ReiserFS to XFS, but the principles are the same. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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